Humorous poetry, English books

Nonsense Books

Edward Lear

The work opens with a generous encomium from the Victorian critic John Ruskin, who crowns Edward Lear’s…

The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe

This volume is a curated anthology of English‑language humorous verse, spanning from medieval poets such as…

The Book of Nonsense

Edward Lear

The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels

Thomas Ingoldsby

The Book of Humorous Verse

The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 01 (of 11) Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations

Thomas Hood

Verse and Worse

Harry Graham

The True History of Tom & Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish!

Hindley, Charles; Egan, Pierce; Moncrieff, W. T.

Departmental ditties and Ballads and Barrack-room ballads

Rudyard Kipling

The Works of Thomas Hood; Vol. 02 (of 11) Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, With All the Original Illustrations

Thomas Hood

A Book of Nonsense

Edward Lear

Nonsense Songs

Edward Lear

The Modern Traveller

Hilaire Belloc

More Nonsense

Edward Lear

Laughable Lyrics

Edward Lear

The Bab Ballads, with Which Are Included Songs of a Savoyard

W. S. Gilbert

Fifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense

W. S. Gilbert

More Bab Ballads

W. S. Gilbert

The Bab Ballads

W. S. Gilbert

Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs

W. S. Gilbert

Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes

Harry Graham

Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen

G. K. Chesterton

The Placid Pug, and Other Rhymes

Alfred Bruce Douglas

The Diverting History of John Gilpin Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, and Came Safe Home Again

William Cowper